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Patented Aug. 20, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. OARDWELL, OF COMMERCIAL P OINT, KENTUCKY.

GATE.

$PEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 544,957, dated August 20, 1895.

Application filed April 3, 1895.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. OAEDWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Commercial Point, in the county of Union and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tilting Gates; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Myinvention relates to gates, and more par ticularly to that class known as tilting gates, in which the gate may be operated by a person on horseback or in a vehicle.

The object of my invention is to improve and simplify the construction and to provide a gate which may be operated with ease and which will not get out of order.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved gate, showing it closed. Fig. 2 is a front view showing it opened.

1 denotes two parallel posts, between which the lower end of the rear standard 2 of the gate 3 is pivoted. 4 denotes the front post, and 5 the lever-supporting posts, to the upper ends of which are pivoted the operatinglevers 6, the free ends of which are provided with cords 7, which hang within convenient reach.

One of the rails 8 of the gate is loosely seated in apertures 9 in the standards of the gate. A spring 10 has its lower end secured to the rear standard, and its upper end bears against the inner end of said rail to hold the outer end of the rail in the keeper 11 of the outer standard 4. In order to prevent the springs thrusting the rail out of the openings in the standards when the gate is tilted, I provide the rail near its outer end with a stop-pin 13.

14 denotes two screw-eyes, which are secured near-the inner end of the rail, and

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through which pass ropes 15, the upper ends of which are connected with the inner ends of the operating-levers, and the lower ends of which are secured to one of the lower fixed rails of the gate at a point rear of the screweyes. When the free end of one of the operating-levers is pulled down, its rope will slide the rail 8 back and release its outer end from the keeper, and by'a further downward movement of the lever the gate will. be tilted into the position shown in Fig. 2, and will cause the free ends of the lovers to be elevated, as shown. Now, by pulling the free end of one of these levers down, the gate will be swung down and locked, as shown in Fig. 1.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation of my invention willloe readily understood without requiring further explanation.

The gate is simple and strong of construction and is easy to operate and can be built at a small cost.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- The combination with the posts 1 and 4:, the latter of which is provided with akeeper, of a gate pivoted at its lower end between said posts 1 and provided with apertures in its standards, a rail loosely seated in said aper tures, and with its outer end adapted to engage the said keeper, and provided with a stop pin, a spring having its free upper end bearing against the inner end of said rail, screw eyes secured to each side of said rail, operating levers supported on posts 5, and ropes secured to the inner ends of said levers, passed through said screw eyes and secured to a fixed rail of the gate at the rear of the screw eyes, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES E. CARDWELL.

Witnesses:

HOMER PROBASCO, LOUIE AYERS. 

